Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1887 — WESTERN. [ARTICLE]

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A man named Oakes created a disturbance at a prayer meeting held in a school house near Eldorado Springs, Mo., the other night, and when a farmer named Clark tried to quiet him Oakea cut Clark’s throat from ear to ear. The murderer is under ari eat A dynamite cartridge was exploded under the Sutter street cable track at San Francisco, the detonation shaking buildings, shattering glass, and terrifying people living in the neighborhood. The loss to the railway company is heavy. G eorge Keck, for many years assistant superintendent of the infirmary at Akron, Ohio, has been arrested for criminal intimacy with an insane inmate. He retaliates by a statement that the bodies of deceased paupers are regularly sold to a medical college in Cleveland. A gas explosion in the Andrews Block, at Youngstown, Oh o, caused a fire which destroyed a half dozon buildings, including the First Baptist Church, Ono man was badly burned, and another perished in the flames. The oss is about $125, 'OO. Isaac W. Sprague, long known as the living skeleton, died in Chicago last ween. Several years ago he sold his body to the Harvard Medical College, and when he died that institution took possession of the corpse. Sprague was 46 years old when he died and weighed 45 pounds. A Kankakee County (Ill.) farmer lost four chddren within five days from diphtheria, David Rothschild & Sons, of Cincinnati, Chicago, and Kansas City, have made an assignment The bail of Fotheringham, the alleged accomplice of Wittrock, was reduced from $2 ',OOO to $1,6 0 at fit Louis. The Northern Pacific machine, boiler, and blacksmith shops at Fargo, Dakota, were burned Three locomotives and a number of valuable machines were destroyed. The loss is estimated at from $150,00 l to $200,000. A man claiming to be the perpetrator of the recent dynamite outrage on a cable road in San Franc.sco has written to a newspaper in that city that the respous.ble parties are members of an organizatioe formed in Chicago directly after the Huvmarket explosion. Some genuine Manitoba weather was experienced in sections of the West and Northwest last week. At St Cloud and Aitkin,%!inn., the thermometer registered 60 dedegrees below zero, at Albert Lea 40, at Bismarck 39, at Miles City, Mont, 30. Throughout Michigan the temperature was 20 to 25 degrees below zero. The Attorney General of Ohio has brought su.ts in ejectment against squatters on canal property in Akron, valuod at $500,000. The report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Dakota makes a good showing. The value of the permanent school property in Dikota is about $3,000,000. It has increased from less than $4),0C0 in 1878. Inhere were in June last 103,382 school children. A large mill belonging to N. C. Foster, of Eau C aire, Wis., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of s3s,oCft to $43,000..